Top Docker Tools: 51 Useful Docker Tools for Every Stage of the Development PipelineBy Angela Stringfellow

Docker is sweeping across startups and enterprises alike, changing the way we build and ship applications. It's the most prominent and widely known software container platform, and it's particularly useful for eliminating common challenges when collaborating on code (like the "it works on my machine" phenomenon that most devs know all too well). With Docker, you can run and manage apps side-by-side - in isolated containers - resulting in better compute density. It's something that many developers don't think about, but you can even use Docker with ASP.NET.

You probably don't need to be sold on the many appealing Docker capabilities, but you might not be familiar with the wide range of third-party tools that integrate seamlessly with Docker, from logging tools to database tools, CI tools, and more. Docker, of course, has its own tools for managing containers, but in this post, we're going to look at third-party tools that are essential to enabling a great container experience in your organization. We'll walk through 50 of the user-friendly, functional Docker tools you can use to transform your software development at every stage, including:

Read on to find out how you can leverage these tools to create a better container experience. And when you're ready to discover more tools to manage and improve your code, download our Ultimate Dev Toolbox - it's free!

Mesosphere makes building and deploying web-scale applications fast and reliable. Used at Twitter, AirBnB, and a host of other large-scale organizations, Mesosphere is one of the early container orchestrators to make it big.

Docker containers are ephemeral, which means as you delete a container, its storage is lost. To store data persistently, leverage Flocker, which migrates data as your containers are migrated across your infrastructure.

EC2 container service (ECS) relieves you of the stress of scheduling and deploying multiple containers, by doing them itself. If you've got infrastructure on AWS already, ECS is your fastest route to containerization.

Key Features:

Based on the leading cloud vendor, AWS, it is highly stable, scalable, and easy to use

Monitors clusters and shows the resources used and resources available

Easily deploy, upgrade and rollback thousands of containers without lags

Cost: Pay only for AWS services you create to store and run your application.

Retrace is the only developer tool that combines APM, logs, errors, monitoring, and metrics in a fully-integrated, multi-environment suite with powerful monitoring and logging capabilities. Plus, it works out of the box with your existing stack.

Heroku is the leading Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) that comes with more than 150 add-ons and more than 3000 ready-to-deploy buttons to increase your production time and decrease the time you take to solve issues.

Key Features:

Provides complete assistance with failovers, patching, upgrading, and system builds

Sets up, operates and maintains your work so that you can focus on creating more useful applications

An open source PaaS tool helping you in every step of your application, offering a fast and safe deploy process with a simple Git push, optimizing your resource utilization, rebalancing resources, and recovering failed units and nodes automatically.

Key Features:

Runs applications written in any language easily

Lets you deploy Docker images with ease

Customize the resource allocation for your application

Cost: Free

These are 50 tools that help you work on Docker, but they're certainly not the only ones. Theses tools play various roles in your process of creating applications, containerizing them, and deploying them in distributed clusters. We hope this list of Docker tools will help make your work more efficient, faster and simpler. If we missed your favorite Docker tool, let us know in the comments below!

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